Inkstand



(No Model.)

J. S. ROSS. INKSTAND'.

Patented Nov. 18, 1884.

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JASPER S. ROSS, OF BRAOEVILLE, OHIO.

INKSTAND.

QSPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,100, dated November 18, 1884.

Application filed April 9, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER S. Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Inkstands, and I do hereby declare the following to be a description of the same and of the manner of constructing and using the invention, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Heretofore various forms of inkstands have been devised, having as their object to provide an ink'cup which shall admit a sufficient depth of ink to supply the pen, said ink-cup having communication with an ink well formed in the inkstand and adapted to be resupplied as occasion may require from said ink-well, the object being to preserve the ink inthe ink-well protected from the atmosphere, to guard against spilling a large quantity of ink in case the inkstand was for a moment tipped over, to permit of a large volume of ink being thus kept in the inkstand without becoming cloggy and thick by evaporation, and to provide a neat and convenient ink-cup into which the pen may be dipped. The end in view by my invention is to improve upon these previous forms of inkstands by the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional view.

stantially as shown, for being suspendedfrom the mouth of the inkstand. The ink-cup is made with a closed bottom, and also has its sides made close, excepting at the top, where two opposite orifices, a, adapted to be constantly open, are formed. A gasket, d, is interposed between the cup and the side of the inkstand-mouth, said gasket being of rubber, cork, or other analogous material. This gasket performs a twofold result: it binds the inkcup securely to theinkstand, permitting ready attachment to or detachment from the same, and it makes a tight joint, to guard against the escape of ink between the cup and inkstand-mouth. The ink-cup depends into the ink-well, with its two side orifices located immediately below the gasket, said orifices providing constant and direct communication between the ink-cup and the opposite upper side portions of the ink-well.

In using this inkstand, as the ink-cup may become empty it is refilled by tipping the inkstand to one side,the ink from the ink-well flowing into the ink-cup through the orifice thereof which is then lowermost, while air passes through the other orifice into the inkwell.

By returning the inkstand to its normal position the ink-cup will retain its supply of ink.

The ink-cup is formed with a concave top, 0, having a pen-opening, D.

What I claim is In an inkstand, the combination of ink-well A, independent ink-cup B, depending therein, and gasket d, said ink-cup having a close bottom and formed near its top with the side orifices, a a, located below the gasket, said inkcup also formed with top 0, having pen-opening D.

This specification signed and witnessed this 15th day of March, 1883.

JASPER s. ROSS.

Witnesses:

Gno. O. TRACY, J NO. '1. BOURKE. 

